R. Hill

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that...

525pages. 23x14x4cm. Broché.

Six-year old introverted prodigy, Richard ""Kingfish"" Hawkes, one of four children of a struggling Jazz pianist loved books, radio programs, dogs and trains. His solitary world changed as the 1948 Chicago neighborhood transitioned with burgeoning southern migration, hobos, transient World War II veterans, urban decay, emerging machine politics ...

Stonehenge is a famous prehistoric monument in Europe visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. This book describes what is known and believed about the monument's construction from c 3000 BCE onwards.

The Lord God Bird is a startling novella filled with dark images of America in the South in 1949. Jake Hamrick, a 19-year-old who has been obsessed since childhood with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird that is on the verge of extinction, leaves Illinois for Louisiana to find the creature,in this cinematic novella of obsession, passion, violen...

""...this substantial and engaging text offers a wealth of practical (in every sense of the word) advice...Every undergraduate laboratory, and, ideally, every undergraduate chemist, should have a copy of what is by some distance the best book I have seen on safety in the undergraduate laboratory.""  Chemistry World, March 2011Laboratory Safety f...